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[quote=Anonymous]So let me tell you my story.

When my son was 10 he went to this camp and had the time of his life -- in fact he had so much fun that he begged us to send him for longer the following year. When the next summer rolled around he was, for some reason, homesick and not too happy. We talked to him, talked to the counselors and the Director, and did our best to encourage him as best we could. He stuck it out the remaining weeks but decided he didn't like the camp enough to return the next summer. He denied there was anything that bad going on, but he just didn't have fun the way he had the prior summer.

Our son is 19 now and I recently reminded him of this camp experience. To my astonishment, he said "Yeah, I really have no idea why I didn't like it. I think it was just a phase I might have been going through and nothing really was wrong with the place."

This was such a revelation to DH and me. I guess the moral of the story is we were more traumatized by that camp summer than our son was. [/quote]

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